This
objection, however, does not hold good, for even in ordinary things that revolve
with great force, such as a potter’s wheel, or a top, we find that the motion
at first is slow, but by degrees it becomes very rapid.
In the same way the passion of the woman having gradually increased, she
has a desire to discontinue coition, when all the semen has fallen away.
And there is a verse with regard to this as follows: ‘The fall of the
semen of the man takes place only at the end of coition, while the semen of the
woman falls continually, and after the semen of both has all fallen away then
they with for the discontinuance of coition’.
Lastly,
Vatsyayana is of the view that the semen of the female falls in the same way as
that of the male. Now some may ask
here: If men and women are beings of the same kind, and are engaged in bringing
about the same result, why should they have different work to do?
Vatsyayana says that this is so, because the ways of working, by which
men are the actors, and women are the persons acted upon, is owing to the nature
of the male and the female, otherwise the actor would be sometimes the person
acted upon, and vice versa. And
from this difference in the ways of working follows the difference in the
consciousness of pleasure, for a man thinks, ‘This woman is united with me,’
and a woman thinks, ‘I am united with this man.’
It
may be said that if the ways of working in men and women are different, why
should not there be a difference even in the pleasure they feel, and which is
the result of those ways.
But
this objection is groundless, for the person acting and the person acted upon
being of different kinds, there is a reason for the difference in their ways of
working; but there is no reason for any difference in the pleasure they feel,
because they both naturally derive pleasure from the act they perform.
On
this again some may say that when different persons are engaged in doing the
same work, we find that they accomplish the same end or purpose; while, on the
contrary, in the case of men and women we find that each of them accomplishes
his or her own end separately, and this is inconsistent.
But this is a mistake, for we find that sometimes two things are done at
the same time, as for instance in
the fighting of rams, both the rams receive the shock at the same time on their
heads. Again, in throwing one wood apple against another, and also
in a fight or struggle of wrestlers. If
it be said that in these cases the things employed are of the two persons is the
same. And as the difference in
their ways of working arises from the difference of their conformation only, it
follows that men experience the same kind of pleasure as women do.